[…] Bell and Judy Dench, directed by Michael Truman. And then it wasn't long before we came to Upstairs Downstairs, that Was 1972. And that music got an award, the Ivor Novello Award for the Best Theme from TV or Radio in 1975 and 1976. I had to wait for one when there wasn't one better.TD: Tell me abo[…]
[…]ry who now I think is a historian. His wife, Cynthia Pendry was the editor of the only shell film that ever won. What was then a British Film Academy Award film called The threat in the water, which I wrote some produced Richard Begum directedJohn Legard  6:47  name I haven't heard runtime[…]
[…]has ever been produced. The amount of talent that I had in it was unbelievable. Everybody wanted to appear in it and I had about twenty stars: Robert Powell, I cast personally as Jesus of Nazareth.Alan Sapper : Did you? Yeah.Lew Grade : Although at first Zeffirelli was against it.Alan Sapper : Who d[…]
[…]h - English director?Carmen Dillon: Oh yes. Very much so. He died about three years ago or something. I met Reggie last at his...Sidney Cole: Michael Powell?Carmen Dillon: Hmmm?Sidney Cole: Do you mean Michael Powell?Carmen Dillon: No. I didn't, no. I never worked with him. Great admiration for him.[…]
[…]ng in a film, it was no great acting part, I can assure you, but they wanted somebody who could talk Russian in 'A Matter of Life and Death' - Mickey Powell. And somebody said, "Oh I know, he can." Well I couldn't talk Russian at all, but I had a friend who could talk Russian who was also in it, so […]
[…]hen I did a film I liked very much, called Hand in Hand. For Columbia. And it was a simple little film but I was very, very pleased. And it won eight awards. What they were I don’t know because the producer woman took them all to America with her and died. I haven’t been able to find them, because o[…]
[…]as that for?And, well, that was coming up to Fifty..., coming up to 1955, it would have been my ten year bonus.Ah, ha. Ah ha.And then I got a special award in 1962 from Stuart Hood signing a letter.Ah, ha.And I wrote the PA guides and got some money and a letter from Huw Wheldon.Yes, yes.And then I […]
